Every successful sales pitch at Land Forces, every business card exchanging hands at the official networking events, means more weapons in the hands of those who can always justify their use.
Loneliness has become a feature of modernity, a hallmark of late capitalism, woven into the technologies and built environments that form the architecture of our lives.
If you want to fundamentally transform society, you should probably read some Leo Panitch.
We can’t allow the federal government to lock us into a gas-fired COVID recovery.
I joined doorknocks in old rental apartment blocks to chat with residents, most working class, who had historically and currently suffered the most under Vancouver’s housing crisis. I heard stories of rising rents forcing people out of homes even though they were working two jobs, of inadequate living conditions and of long-term renters being evicted in “renovictions”.
